{"id":1624,"date":"2014-07-28T17:08:22","date_gmt":"2014-07-28T23:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=1624"},"modified":"2015-04-27T14:48:59","modified_gmt":"2015-04-27T20:48:59","slug":"dreams-of-joy-a-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=1624","title":{"rendered":"Dreams of Joy: A Novel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Lisa See, Audiobook, 2011, Read by Janet Song, Random House Audiobooks<\/p>\n<p>This novel was fairly pleasant to listen to, but the plot and characters were pretty light weight.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0The book is about a young girl of Chinese descent who, through being enthralled by the promise of Chinese communism and her own idealism, decides that she will run away from home and go back to China.\u00c2\u00a0 She ends up in a commune and reality is much harsher than her dreams.<\/p>\n<p>The story slogs along and towards the end the part which should be the most exciting is given very little attention.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s over.<\/p>\n<p>The reading was okay but not inspiring.\u00c2\u00a0 Other than that, I don&#8217;t have much to say about this run of the mill effort.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"2 stars\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/wp-includes\/images\/stars-2-0.gif\" alt=\"2 stars\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Lisa See, Audiobook, 2011, Read by Janet Song, Random House Audiobooks This novel was fairly pleasant to listen to, but the plot and characters were pretty light weight.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0The book is about a young girl of Chinese descent who, through <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=1624\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-1624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1624"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1626,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1624\/revisions\/1626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}